15 MAY 1948, ON THIS DAY, THE FIRST ARAB-ISRAELI WAR STARTED.
Viewed as a "Nakba", or “The Catastrophe” in Arabic, to refer to the 1948 expulsions by Zionist gangs.
On 14 May 1948, Britain relinquished its mandate over Palestine following a UN resolution from the previous year that called for the partitioning of the territory between the Arabs and the Jews.
Britain had emerged from the Second World war exhausted and war-weary and lacking the funds to maintain control of its colonial possessions.
The partition plan was accepted by the Zionist settlers who declared Israel as an independent state. Many settlers were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, along with others who had fought against Germany in the Second World war.
All Arab countries, including Palestine, rejected the plan and declared their determination to destroy any creation of Israel in the heart of Arab land.
Faced by unanimous opposition, Britain refused to implement it and set 15 May as the date for ending its mandate. On the same day regular troops from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered Palestine in support of the local Palestinian Arabs.
The Israelis, fighting for the existence of their new state against a poorly coordinated Arab front, proved the stronger force.
Arab-Israeli fighting continued up to January 1949 when an armistice agreement was finally forged in July of that year.
The outcome left the new Israeli state with 80% of the territory that was to have been divided between the two communities according to the UN partition plan.
More than 350 Arab villages were destroyed and the centre of Palestinian life shifted to the Arab towns of the eastern region, later called the West Bank, thus starting the plight of the huge number of displaced Arabs.
The number of Arabs within newly created Israel was cut from about 700,000 to 165,000. Many inhabitants fled in the face of the Israeli counter attack. More than 20% of Palestinian Arabs left Palestine altogether and resettled in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Iraq.
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